How many of the Seven Wonders of the World can you name? Though it may be difficult to believe, nothing from Hawaii made it to the list. Now there’s a new list.
National Geographic magazine has a new list of the Seven Wonders of the World. Hawaii may have some of the world’s best beaches, but none qualify as a world wonder. What does?
Tops on the new list of wonders is the 105-foot Christ the Redeemer statue high atop a mountain near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Couldn’t Hawaii do the same thing with, say, a King Kamehameha statue?
Also on the new list are the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome, and India’s Taj Mahal. Hawaii needs a new structure to replace the aging Aloha Stadium. How about building a colosseum in the Pacific ocean? If the legislature would allow gambling, Waikiki would soon have a half dozen Taj Mahal-like structures.
The National Geographic list also has Jordan’s ancient city of Petra, the Inca ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru, and the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico.
Apparently, nothing in Hawaii qualifies as a great wonder of the world to National Geographic. If you could vote for a Hawaii wonder to include on a list of the Greatest Wonders of the World, what would it be?
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